Lunar New Year Celebration

Event: Lunar New Year Celebration

Location: Global Gallery of Hagerty Hall

Date: Monday, February 3rd

Type of event: Campus

Today I swung by Hagerty Hall to try to experience some of the Lunar New Year Celebration and even though I didn’t learn much about the celebrations and cultures, I did learn about planning. I thought that because I saw on the website that it ended at 2:00, that I would be fine to pop by and check it out. For the future, I plan to actually read websites and check to see if there is any itinerary or schedule of events so that I know what is actually happening at an event that’s listed on carmen. 

 When I showed up, there were men packing up things that were on tables and decorations. I assumed it was over so I was about to leave when I saw Sean. We were both looking for the same thing, so we ended up talking to one of the men packing things up. This ended up being a pretty cool little experience because we were talking to Minru Li, one of the event coordinators. We were then led to his office and got to talk about what had happened at the event that we had missed and looked at posters about Chinese in Columbus: A History. One thing I learned from talking with Minru Li is that the lunar calendar is not used only by the Chinese, which is why in the itinerary that he showed us there is a Japanese Kimono Demo. 

Even though I was able to learn from talking with Minru Li, next year I plan to pay more attention to details and remember this event so that I can enjoy the different exhibits, ceremonies, demos, and performances.

 

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